ASFS at 80% capacity?

[Anonymous]

I’m not sure I understand the question. Are you trying to find out whether APS is no longer views favorably by people?

[Anonymous]

So adding a new elementary school with hundreds of seats worked? Schools aren’t as overcrowded as before? Great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure I understand the question. Are you trying to find out whether APS is no longer views favorably by people?

Sounds like OP is new to APS and doesn’t realize we just added a new school and moved kids around to balance enrollment.

[Anonymous]

It's a combo of new school = added seats and the people (who can afford it and can get a seat) who are pulling their kids from APS for private. Our N. Arl school is down 20% as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a combo of new school = added seats and the people (who can afford it and can get a seat) who are pulling their kids from APS for private. Our N. Arl school is down 20% as well.

Which school?

[Anonymous]

Hamm was also down the first year it opened.

Some kids chose to stay at Swanson or WMS for their final year. Didn't the rising 5th graders have that option--stay at ASFS or the new Key school? I would guess numbers are reflecting that and also anticipating the population growth that is happening at the youngest levels. Population forecast for incoming K APS students is growing a lot in the next 5 years or so.

You don't want to open new schools and already be at max capacity. It does not allow for growth.

[Anonymous]

They also didn’t finish the last round of boundary changes because of the pandemic. They made as few changes as possible to open up the new school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So adding a new elementary school with hundreds of seats worked? Schools aren’t as overcrowded as before? Great.

Oh, so high schools are still screwed. They aren’t building a new HS ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So adding a new elementary school with hundreds of seats worked? Schools aren’t as overcrowded as before? Great.

Oh, so high schools are still screwed. They aren’t building a new HS ever.

They are slightly less screwed if this drop in enrollment is permanent, but otherwise correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So adding a new elementary school with hundreds of seats worked? Schools aren’t as overcrowded as before? Great.

Oh, so high schools are still screwed. They aren’t building a new HS ever.

Oh, you’re just here to sh1t on APS.

The whiny APS parents are the worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So adding a new elementary school with hundreds of seats worked? Schools aren’t as overcrowded as before? Great.

Oh, so high schools are still screwed. They aren’t building a new HS ever.

Oh, you’re just here to sh1t on APS.

The whiny APS parents are the worst.

I love APS. Great teachers and principals. I will happily dump on school board who is kicking the fan down the road on capacity issues and basically trying to drive families to Fairfax or private rather than build a high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So adding a new elementary school with hundreds of seats worked? Schools aren’t as overcrowded as before? Great.

Oh, so high schools are still screwed. They aren’t building a new HS ever.

Oh, you’re just here to sh1t on APS.

The whiny APS parents are the worst.

DP. High school overcrowding is a reasonable concern. Some APS parents whine a lot. Others figure, if we bought here, it must be “great.” And others, the sensible middle, don’t think about it that much, just figuring that it’s a good-enough school system.

[Anonymous]

Yes, ASFS is down to 80% of capacity, and no that was not planned. The projections they had the new boundary based on had the school at 95% or 105% of capacity depending on immersion attrition. Both Innovation and ASFS only have 3 classes per grade. Innovation only has 2 fifth grade classes because of grandfathering (over 90% of the fifth grade at asfs stayed rather than moving to the new school).

I agree that its bad to open a new school at capacity (originally Innovation was supposed to open at capacity, I doubt that is happening). I personally don't think that APS can plan worth shit, and I think that they are really underestimating the number of kids that have gone private and will stay private. They should not redo boundaries anytime in the next five years -- its silly because they have nothing to project enrollment off of, and I don't think there is an overcrowding problem anywhere other than maybe a a handful of schools (at least at elementary).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, ASFS is down to 80% of capacity, and no that was not planned. The projections they had the new boundary based on had the school at 95% or 105% of capacity depending on immersion attrition. Both Innovation and ASFS only have 3 classes per grade. Innovation only has 2 fifth grade classes because of grandfathering (over 90% of the fifth grade at asfs stayed rather than moving to the new school).

I agree that its bad to open a new school at capacity (originally Innovation was supposed to open at capacity, I doubt that is happening). I personally don't think that APS can plan worth shit, and I think that they are really underestimating the number of kids that have gone private and will stay private. They should not redo boundaries anytime in the next five years -- its silly because they have nothing to project enrollment off of, and I don't think there is an overcrowding problem anywhere other than maybe a a handful of schools (at least at elementary).

Wow, so if ASFS is at 80% with a supersized grandfathered 5th grade, it must be down even more.

[Anonymous]

How do we know it's 80%?

And is it 80% of the building capacity?

Or 80% of the 2019-20 school numbers (which was significantly overcapacity)?